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          1. …in reply to @mathewi
            mathewi They produced no useful technology that wasn't entirely dependent on the centralized Civil site, couldn't put together the process to properly raise funds past launch & the voting process was badly compromised by mechanics of the coin system where people could buy voting power.
        1. …in reply to @Chronotope
          mathewi If they really wanted to build a member-owned journalism system they'd prob be better off just traditionally funding some public radio site or incubating Defector-type sites without any of the coin nonsense.
      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
        mathewi Like... I can't emphasize how mediocre it is that a project aimed at supporting decentralized multi-owner media couldn't manage to produce software that wasn't dependent on their centralized website which then went down making almost every line of code they wrote useless.
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      mathewi The main good thing they did was give publications money, which had absolutely nothing to do w/anything coin or blockchain related and didn't leave those companies with anything having to do w/the Civil project when it shut down. They ended up member focused via traditional means
  1. …in reply to @Chronotope
    mathewi Like... Civil was entirely useless except as a channel for moving money into publications through traditional grants and then raising money for itself to develop useless software. It's an embarrassing indictment of blockchain for journalism.
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      mathewi One of the sites Civil put out in front of their marketing most often wasn't even on the core functionality of the member-ownership technology! Chronotope/1155865170327080961 ConSenSys should just give their ex-publications over at Brick House Co-op a bunch of cash for the BS.


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